[Music] Your top 5 metal albums ?

[Lenin]

I'm just going to throw this down here - Tyr is a vastly underrated band. Mid-tempo and Norse themed, much like Amon Amarth, but with mostly clean vocals. They really are tremendous

I think that Kalmah is also very underrated band just like Tyr and they are amazing melodeath band.
For example:

[VanillaO]

I have thought about it for a while, and decided

maudlin of the Well - Bath
Protest the Hero - Kezia
Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
Tiamat - Wildhoney
Opeth - Blackwater Park

In any order... I could easily put another 15 albums that are on par with most of these :/ Metal = win.

EDIT: I've also listened to St. Anger probably 20 times since it came out... I can't take it at all.. it is, in my eyes, one of the worst efforts that a band has ever put forth having already had great success.

[Deleted]

1. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine (Biomech)
2. At The Gates - Slaughter of The Soul
3. Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down
4. My Dying Bride - 34.788%... Complete
5. Hypocrisy - Catch 22
A little bit of variation

[Melanieshaman]

Savatage- Gutter Ballet
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Megadeth- Peace sells...but who's buying?
Judas Priest- Painkiller
Iron Maiden- Powerslave

[Frenegade42]

Realm of Chaos - Bolt Thrower
Like An Everflowing Stream - Dismember
Voimasta ja Kunniasta - Moonsorrow
Will of the Gods is Great Power - Scald
Evolution Purgatory - Persuader

probably some blind guardian, limbonic art, ensiferum, dissection and SYL stuff too but it's only 5 albums so whatever

OMG Bolt Thrower. I'm not an aficionado of metal, but I remember that album being advertised in White Dwarf and inside some of their hardcover rulebooks for Warhammer. They were almost the official band of Games Workshop and must have been among the first to mix music and gaming culture.

[Stormcall]

[/COLOR]I'm just going to throw this down here - Tyr is a vastly underrated band. Mid-tempo and Norse themed, much like Amon Amarth, but with mostly clean vocals. They really are tremendous

I own all their albums, and have seen them live. I find them enjoyable, but not remarkable. And I can safely say that Amon Amarth by FAR the better band.

As for In Flames, I like them through Colony, but not top 5 worthy. Clayman was the beginning of the end(I have no clue how anyone didn't know what was coming next after hearing Clayman) and everything since then has been bland and forgettable. There's been a good song here and there, but NONE of the post-Colony albums have been actual good albums for me.

[Deleted]

1. Devin Townsend - Ocean Machine

I think it would be better if you said Ocean Machine - Biomech.
Since ocean machine is devin's band and biomech is the name of the album.

[jaquee]

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

[Badpaladin]

Hmmmm.

1. Isis - Panopticon - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHYKdVZM8PE
2. Neurosis - The Eye of Every Storm - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGQImg2u5PQ
3. Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuPz7cMD3qs
4. Opeth - Blackwater Park - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0huYQQ-Gms
5. Cult of Luna - Somewhere Along the Highway - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxoroLqkDfk

It's adifficult to pick only five, but those probably round out the ones I prefer to listen to at any given time.

[Tuhka]

1. Human Sculpture - Our World / Torn Down
2. Volumes - Via
3. Soilwork - Stabbing the Drama
4. Sybreed - The Pulse of Awakening
5. In Flames - Soundtrack to Your Escape

great shizzle bromies!

[Llarold]

I saw St. Anger before saw any Black Sabbath, and I knew the thread was over.

[Lenin]

Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Iron Maiden - Brave New World
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Somewhere In Time

I see what you did there.

[Metallikiddd]

1. Slayer - Hell Awaits
2. Sepultura - Arise
3. Metallica - Master of Puppets
4. Megadeth - Rude Awakening (live)
5. Pantera - Cowboys From Hell

#6 would be Carcass - Heartwork

[Korpiklaani]

Meh this is hard to choose..

1- Dissection - Storm of the light's bane
2- Origin - Entity
3- Keep of Kalessin - Reptilian
4- Septicflesh - Communion
5- Metallica - Master of puppets

Also honorable mentions to:
Vital Remains - Dechristianize/Icons of evil <3
Amon Amarth - Twilight of the thunder god/Versus the world
Fleshgod Apocalypse - Oracles
Arcturus - The Sham Mirrors
Behemoth - Demigod
Dimmu Borgir - Enthrone Darkness Triumphant


Hmm yeah there's too many that I like :S

[Deleted]

I think it would be better if you said Ocean Machine - Biomech.
Since ocean machine is devin's band and biomech is the name of the album.

The cover art, however, says Devin Townsend and Ocean Machine, then Biomech. And it's simply tagged as Ocean Machine (the album) on websites like last.fm so.. Fix'd anyway.

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Amon Amarth - Fate of Norns(or any album really)
In Flames - Whoracle
Pantera - Vulgar Display of power
Slayer - Divine Intervention(definitely not their most popular album but I love it)
Bolt Thrower - Mercenary

[Dald]

this is way too difficult to do for me
i'll just stick with too many to accurately list

[Lenin]

Also honorable mentions to:
Vital Remains - Dechristianize/Icons of evil <3

I love you. <333

[Tuhka]

2. Decapitated - Organic Halucinosis

If I could, I'd give you +rep for that. Most listened to 2011 for me. R.I.P. Vitek.

[Deleted]

I saw St. Anger before saw any Black Sabbath, and I knew the thread was over.

Your opinion > everyone else?

Personally I don't like metallica but I definitely think they are worthy of many peoples top 5 albums.